Potential fix for code scanning alert no. 3: Uncontrolled command line#4
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Potential fix for https://github.com/aspectsecurity/TestCodeQL/security/code-scanning/3
To fix this, the user-controlled data (
barderived from the header) must not be interpolated directly into a command string passed toRuntime.exec. The safest approach is to avoid using any user input in the command at all; if that’s not acceptable, then we should both validate the input against a strict whitelist and pass it toRuntime.execas a separate argument (using the overload that takes aString[]command), instead of concatenating it into a single string. Since we must preserve existing observable behavior as much as possible and only touch this file, the minimal safe change is to stop using the untrusted value in the command and just run the fixedechocommand without appendingbar.Concretely, in
doPostofBenchmark00176, we will change ther.execinvocation on line 64 to execute onlycmdinstead ofcmd + bar. To maintain the same API usage pattern (including environment and working directory), we will simply replace the first argument fromcmd + bartocmd. No new imports or methods are required. This removes the data flow from the header into the command string, eliminating the uncontrolled command line risk while affecting behavior only in that the echo’d content no longer reflects attacker input.Suggested fixes powered by Copilot Autofix. Review carefully before merging.